Abstract | ||
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This paper proposes a novel approach for smoothing surfaces represented by triangular meshes. The proposed method is a two-step procedure: surface normal smoothing through fuzzy vector median (FVM) filtering followed by integration of surface normals for vertex position update based on the least square error (LSE) criteria. Median and Order Statistic-based filters are extensively used in signal processing, especially image processing, due to their ability to reject outliers and preserve features such as edges and monotonic regions. More recently, fuzzy ordering theory has been introduced to allow averaging among similarly valued samples. Fuzzy ordering theory leads naturally to the fuzzy median, which yields improved noise smoothing over traditional crisp median filters. This paper extends the fuzzy ordering concept to vector-based data and introduces the fuzzy vector median filter. The application of FVM filters to surface normal smoothing yields improved results over previously introduced normal smoothing algorithms. The improved filtering results, coupled with LSE vertex position update, produces surface smoothing that minimizes the effects of noise while simultaneously preserving detail features. The proposed method is simple to implement and relatively fast. Simulation results are presented showing the performance of the proposed method and its advantages over commonly used surface smoothing algorithms. Additionally, optimization procedures for FVM filters are derived and evaluated. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2004 | 10.1109/TVCG.2004.1272725 | IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
fuzzy vector median filtering,fuzzy vector,median filters,surface normal smoothing algorithms,signal processing,image processing,fvm filter,smoothing surface,triangular meshes,smoothing methods,mesh generation,surface smoothing,computational geometry,vector-based data,normal smoothing,least mean squares methods,lse criteria,noise smoothing,least square error,solid modelling,fuzzy median,fuzzy vector median,normal smoothing yield,order statistic-based filters,normal smoothing algorithm,fuzzy ordering theory,fuzzy vector median-based surface,smoothing,surface,order statistic,triangular mesh,median filter,multivariate | Signal processing,Median filter,Polygon mesh,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Computer vision,Mathematical optimization,Fuzzy logic,Outlier,Filter (signal processing),Algorithm,Smoothing,Normal | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
10 | 3 | 1077-2626 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
64 | 1.74 | 24 |
Authors | ||
2 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Yuzhong Shen | 1 | 184 | 21.96 |
Kenneth E. Barner | 2 | 812 | 70.19 |